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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Hamas Calls on Palestinians to Obstruct the IDF Search for the Kidnapped Teens

On
Thursday evening , shortly after 10 p.m. 3 Israeli boys left their
school together hoping to get home. They never made it because, as many
have heard, they were kidnapped.

As often
happens here, hitching a ride is one way of getting around; often when
one is at the 'trempiada' (the station where one gets a 'tremp' - a
hitch) drivers who see someone from their community stop to pick up
their neighbors.

In some cases, terrorists dress up as religious men - with a
kippah (yarmulkeh) or fringes - in order to lure victims into their
cars. There is no safety in numbers, as we can see, and the 3 young
students - 2 of them 16 years of age and one 19 - got into a car whose
driver had evil plans. One of the boys managed to
alert authorities on his cellphone before contact was lost. A burned
out car, apparently used in the abduction, was found and it is assumed
that the 3 were transferred to another vehicle.

Since Thurs. evening the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has
been conducting a mass search and taken some into custody. As yet there
is no news and we wait and pray that the 3 will be returned safely to
their immediate families and to us; they are all our children.

As we know, just a few days ago, the PA Unity government
which includes the terrorist group, Hamas, was recognized by President
Obama who has said in the past that he would not deal with terrorists
and that the US 'has Israel's back'. Accepting a government whose goal
it is to destroy Israel is not reconcilable with caring about Israel's
security; thus, the President has added two more lies to his long list.
He has said for a long time that he would establish a Palestinian state
and this advance notice has meant that Israel's enemies could take
it for granted - without cooperation.

We must remember, too, that Sec'y of State Kerry who
shuttled back and forth several times for many months, threatened Israel
should she not agree to his demands in the 'peace process'. His
warnings to Israel included renewed terrorism by the enemy and further
international isolation. No such warnings were given the terrorist
regime of Abbas who could only interpret Kerry's words to Israel as an
invitation to new attacks.

If Abbas is, indeed, the head of the Unity government, it
is he who is culpable for the kidnappings. Israeli news programs have
been showing photos of the cheering Arabs in Hebron and Gaza as they
hand out sweets in celebration of the abductions. This, too, was their
reaction to the WTC bombings on 9/11/01 and whenever tragedy has
occurred to the US as well as Israel.

It is time for all Americans to understand that the enmity
of the radical Islamic countries of the Middle East is not reserved just
for Israel. Their ideology is incompatible with Western civilization
and their goal is the destruction of the West and the creation of a
worldwide caliphate with sharia law for all. Israel, a western
democracy, is in the way. Europe has already undergone a perceptible
change and there are already elements in the US. Many do not want to
hear this; some do not believe it. We hear it and believe it because we
have heard it directly from them and we are experiencing it.

Tonight, Israel speaks with one voice; politics are
forgotten as we stand united with the hope that we will soon hear good
news - the safe return of our boys -

Hamas Calls on Palestinians to Obstruct the IDF Search for the Kidnapped Teens

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Date Posted: 2014-06-13 16:37:59 Three
students, two of them from the Makor Chaim Yeshiva in the religious
kibbutz Kfar Etzion went missing Thursday night in what officials say
was likely a kidnapping by terrorists.

All communication was lost with them as they were on their way home from
the yeshiva, located in Gush Etzion, roughly between Jerusalem and
Hevron in Judea; security sources suspect they were taken into a vehicle driven by terrorists that stopped for them as they waited at a popular hitchhiking spot.

The story has been under a media embargo until now, given the sensitive
nature of the incident and the danger posed to the three. Several false
reports concerning the event were circulated in its initial aftermath,
but these are the initial details of the incident that have been
permitted for publication as of now.

An IDF Spokesperson Unit statement noted that the IDF Chief of Staff has
put all active units on full readiness to take action based on
intelligence information.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called an emergency meeting with
security officials at the IDF's Tel Aviv headquarters; earlier the PM
met in Jerusalem with the Defense Minister and Internal Security
Minister over the crisis.

Netanyahu's office held the Palestinian Authority leadership responsible for the boys' disappearance.

"Israel holds the Palestinian Authority responsible for the well being
of the 3 missing Israeli teens," the PM's spokesman Ofir Gendelman wrote
on Twitter.

Call for prayers

Friends of the missing students called on the public to pray for the safe rescue of the three youths.

In the last few minutes the Chief Rabbis of Israel issued a joint
statement calling on members of the public to recite psalm 121 and pray
for the safety of the boys. The rabbinate also called on all Jewish
women make sure to light Shabbat candles and say prayers in merit of the
missing youths.

A statement released on behalf of one of the boys' family emphasized
that he Arab Ma'an News Agency cited local Arab sources on Friday,
saying IDF forces were searching the town of Dura to the southwest of
Hevron.

Palestinian media released footage of a burned-out car and IDF forces
conducting searches, apparently in the aftermath of the kidnap and
search.

Meanwhile, in the last few minutes Hamas spokesman Hassan Badran broke
the Islamist terrorist group's silence on the episode, and openly called
on Arabs in Judea and Samaria to obstruct the Israeli effort to find
the boys, who he referred to as "Israeli soldiers", despite the fact
that they were unarmed teenage students.

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Yet another indication of the absolute corruption of American academia today. "US scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel," from the Jerusalem Post, December 16: NEW YORK – The 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA), which describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to...http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/us-scholars-group-votes-in-favor-of-academic-boycott-of-israel.html

Israel Living Prophecy

A senior New Israel Fund officer told a U.S. official in 2010 that the disappearance of the Jewish state would not be a tragedy, according to a document that was leaked by Wikileaks...She commented that she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.

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US-Israeli talks focus on Ahmadinejad's possible ouster

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DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad's cabinet is falling apart; of his original lineup of 21 ministers, only nine remain at their posts.

The Identity Of The Land

Why the Palestinians need to recognize the Jewish State

We do NOT support a 2-state solution

A January 2009 poll found that Americans oppose creating a Palestinian state by 45-31 percent. A February 2009 Maagar Mohot Survey Institute poll has also shown that Israelis oppose creating a Palestinian state by 51-32 percent.

Many other polls tell a similar story.

These figures suggest that Americans and Israelis have understood that creating a Palestinian state under current conditions will not bring peace but merely another terror state.

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Jerusalem At Night

Why reconstruct Gaza without making demands

- that Shalit be release without convicted terrorists being released by Israel in exchange,

- that the US be put in charge of the southern border to ensure that Hamas isn’t rearmed?

- that their three preconditions be accepted by Hamas, i.e. agree to all former agreements,recognize Israel and renounce terror

- that Hamas amend their Charter

- That Hamas disconnect from Iran

The answer is that they don’t want to.

Children of Hamas

Picture of Hamas children the media does not show you

IDF: Civilian Deaths in Gaza Less than 25% of Total

A maximum of 25% of the Palestinians killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli operation are innocent civilians, the head of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), Col. Moshe Levi, said Wednesday. According to Palestinian medical officials, Israel has killed some 1,000 Palestinians and more than half of them are civilians. Levi said the CLA had compiled a list with the names of 900 Palestinians killed during the fighting. He said that 150 names were of women, children and elderly, and that the maximum number of civilians killed so far was 250. Levi also dismissed claims that 43 Palestinians were killed in an IDF attack on a Hamas terror cell that was firing mortars at Israeli forces from within an UNRWA school in Jabalya. Levi said 21 Palestinians were killed in the attack, including a number of Hamas operatives. (Jerusalem Post)

Hamas teaching the children of Gaza

An Iranian reformist daily newspaper has criticized Hamas "for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals." This is reported in today's Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam. The Palestinian daily adds that in response the Iranian government has closed the newspaper.

"The Iranian news agency "Irna" reported yesterday, that the Iranian Culture Ministry has closed the reformist daily newspaper "Karjo Zaran", because it published a report that included criticism of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). On December 30 the paper published a statement of a reformist student organization, that has criticized Hamas for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals. The statement was published whilst the Iranian government expresses a unified stands against Israel, and Tehran is overwhelmed by demonstrations against Israel."

[Al-Ayyam, Jan. 1, 2009] Thanks PMW

Iran-backed Hamas Rocket, Mortar Attacks and Nuclear Developments

9,400+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2003. [1]3,200+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza in 2008 alone. [2]6,500+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. [3]543+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israeli territory during the ceasefire from June 19 to Dec. 19, 2008. [4]28 deaths caused by rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel since 2001. The dead include Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire ended, Iran-backed Palestinian groups in Gaza fired rockets and mortars that killed an Israeli-Arab construction worker and a mother of four who was seeking shelter in a bus station as a rocket warning siren sounded. [5]1,000+ people in Israel injured from rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2001, including Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire, 44 Israelis have been injured and 200 have been treated for shock. [6]Thanks Israel Project

It began with this...

The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917Dear Lord Rothschild,I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate theachievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities inPalestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.2

Signed,Arthur James Balfour[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]

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Syria is an Occupier-Are You Listening World?

As of this minute, Syria occupies at least 177 square miles of Lebanese soil. That you are now reading about it for the first time is as much a scandal as the occupation itself.

The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by the International Lebanese Committee for UN Security Council Resolution 1559, an American NGO that has consultative status with the UN. In meticulous detail - supplemented by photographs and satellite images - the authors describe precisely where and how Lebanon has been infiltrated.

Though the land grabs are small affairs individually, they collectively add up to an area amounting to about 4% of Lebanese soil - in U.S. terms, the proportional equivalent of Arizona. Of particular note is that the area of Syrian conquest dwarves that of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms which amount to an area of about 12 square miles.

It would be nice to see the Arab world protest this case of illegal occupation, given its passions about the subject.

Information worth Possessing

"Israel gave the Palestinians an autonomy in 42% of the West Bank and Gaza after the Oslo accords in the early 90's. Over 92% of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza were then under the administration of the Palestinian Authority and its Chairman Yasser Arafat.

"Israel is surrounded by 10 hostile Arab countries who do not even recognize its right to exist ( Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Morocco, Tunisia, Aden) and Iran"